Mike Weiner
| President/CEO
Howard Glassroth
| Senior Consultant
Jack Palmer
| Senior Consultant
Bill Holleran | Senior Consultant
Ann Quarzo | Senior Consultant
Jeff Porro | Senior Consultant
Mike Weiner has appeared as a Reporter in "The American President", produced by Rob Reiner and starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening. He
also appeared in the nationally televised "America's Most Wanted". Mike has worked professionally as a
broadcaster, producer, writer, director, actor and voiceover talent since
1971, starting with the construction of a high school radio station with
friends in Silver Spring, MD. Mr. Weiner entered the U.S. Air Force as a
Broadcaster for the American Forces Radio and Television Service ( think
"Good Morning Vietnam"), in 1974, returning in 1977 to his hometown of
Washington, DC. In 1985 he formed The Image Generators, and built a
digital audio production facility where today he regularly produces, voices,
edits and transmits documentary and training narrations, radio commercials,
audio infomercials, advertising on-hold messages and internet audio
production for a multitude of clients. As his reputation spread, it created
a demand for him to teach his skills to others who wanted to become
voiceover actors in the area, and in 1989 he created the
Voice-Over Marketing Workshop,
a two-day weekend intensive to introduce the business. He has taught over
1500 students in these weekend workshops, and has coached several of them
into careers in the voiceover industry.His client list includes regular
talent work for the United States Government and several agencies, Lockheed
Martin, Booz Allen and Hamilton, Boeing, Merrill Lynch, DDB Needham, and
dozens of others across the country. Mr. Weiner has narrated
programs appearing on The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, as well
as several thousand radio commercials and many hundreds of narrations for
video programs. Through The Image Generators, he supplies audio production
services to Lockheed Martin, Booz | Allen | Hamilton, the Bozutto Group,
Courtyard by Marriott, Holiday Inn, Best Western, Lincoln Property Company,
Westat and dozens of others. Mr. Weiner holds a BS in Communication Arts, a
BA in Business and Management, and an MBA in Marketing. He also has held a
Top Secret DoD clearance.
Howard Glassroth
is recognized for his expertise in planning and executing strategic
communications and marketing programs across a broad range of industries. As
both an in-house executive and outside consultant, he has planned and
directed critical communications during mergers/acquisitions, emerging
legislation, community protests, and management changes, where he identified
issues and created plans to address them. He has devised research-based
marketing programs to appropriately position organizations, developed both
Internet and Intranet sites and represented senior management with important
constituents, including serving on numerous trade association committees in
the energy, media, hospitality and healthcare industries. He was previously
Vice President, Communications for a Washington, D.C.-based trade
association and has served as Vice President, Marketing & Communications for
the nation's largest privately owned managed behavioral healthcare company
with revenues of approximately $1 billion. He has also held the position of
Vice President, Public Affairs at Warner Cable Communications
(a division of Time Warner), where he created and executed programs in
support of the company's marketing & advertising objectives, emerging issues
management, community and employee relations, and public profile. As Vice
President, Corporate Affairs at Ameritrust Corporation
(predecessor of KeyCorp), he designed and managed marketing communications
strategies for the integration of acquired banks. He oversaw corporate
branding functions and was responsible for employee communications, public
relations and public policy issues, as well as the communications associated
with corporate restructuring, legislative oversight, community and CRA
activities.
Jack Palmer
has
extensive marketing communications experience providing internal guidance
and support to companies and agencies including EvansGroup, Stein Robaire
Helm, Mendelsohn/Zien, The Miller Group, Public Health Foundation, Lambesis
Communications, Kovel/Kresser, URI International, Remodeling Management LLC,
and White & Partners. Developed and supervised implementation of marketing
activities for clients including Daewoo Motor America, Samsung Group, BMW
Dealers Association, Hyundai Motor Corporation, LG Electronics, Virginia
Tourism Corporation, and Marriott International. He spearheaded URI
International’s billings growth from $5 million in 1994 to $60 million in
2001, participated in successful negotiations in Pyongyang between officials
of DPRK government and executives of a major European multi-national
company, and
generated $150 million in sales leads, drove sales growth 200% and
expanded the dealership network with the launch of Daewoo-branded heavy
construction equipment in Latin America. Created two-year strategic
business and roll-out plan focusing on attracting new dealers to the
franchise, building a support network for existing dealers, and emphasizing
a “Nature, culture, future” brand image.
Bill Holleran
is
known both inside and outside the Beltway for expertise in government
technology PR and "e-government" marketing. He was recipient of the 2000
Hammer Award for contributions to building a government "that works better
and costs less."
Bill is considered by leading technology editors and reporters to be
one of the most trusted and reliable D.C.-based PR practitioners. He teaches
ontinuing education seminars in strategic PR planning, broadcast PR writing,
media relations, marketing, sales management and first-line management from
Public Relations Society of America, American Society of Association
Executives, Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, American
Marketing Association, Sandler Sales Institute and American Management
Association/University of Virginia, and is a sought-after PR seminar leader
and author of many published articles on PR issues and trends.
Ann
Quarzo is a recognized communications professional with extensive
marketing, public relations, and advertising credentials in the private and
public sectors, in the capacity of both client and agency. Ms. Quarzo
founded and operated a full service marketing, advertising and public
relations firm, Q & Company, Inc., in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands,
specializing in cross-cultural communications. She is a Consultant in
Washington, DC, focusing on small business and non-profit development and
promotion, An effective and results-oriented communications strategist,
planner, and manager, she has conceptualized and executed award-winning
campaigns for wide-ranging clients including McDonald’s of the Virgin
Islands, for which she received the national award for Local Store
Marketing. Ms. Quarzo developed and executed marketing communications
strategy and affiliate training for Civic Network Television, a pilot
non-profit that provided satellite-delivered interactive television training
for community organizations and volunteers nationwide. She has represented
a Washington, DC waterfront development property and helped several
non-profits reach membership goals. She has written and produced radio and
TV spots, print advertising, collateral materials. She has served as
spokesperson for wide-ranging clients and organizations including the USVI
Governor and the President of an international insurance company
headquartered in San Juan, PR. Ms. Quarzo holds a BA in Political Science
from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Communications with
concentration in writing from the Annenberg School for Communications at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Jeff Porro
created the concept and co-wrote the hit movie "The Great Debaters" starring Denzel Washington. Away from the glitter of Hollywood, Jeff
has written hundreds of speeches for a wide variety of CEOs of corporations, trade
associations, professional societies, and other large nonprofits (plus a
young woman from ‘Survivor’) that won rave reviews from key audiences.
Ghosted OpEds for executives of corporations and nonprofits that have been
published in more than 60 major regional and national publications,
including the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. As a Senior
Vice President of a strategy consulting service in Washington, DC, he headed
a team of writers who provided speeches and other public policy writing
services for corporate, non-profit, and government clients. He helped his
company secure its first major corporate client, Dupont, and added major
clients including the American Chemical Society and the Lymphoma Research
Foundation. In his role as Senior
Editor of Teacher Magazine, Jeff has
edited “opinion” section and the “teaching,” “research,” and other
departments. He helped set set the overall editorial direction of each
issue, developed story ideas, and shepherded stories from to completion.
